Byron’s Procreative Poetry James Soderholm Published in Connotations Vol. 8.3 (1998/99) To withdraw myself from myself (oh that cursed has ever been my sole, my entire, my sincere motive in scribbling. Lord Byron In the first canto of “Don Juan,” Byron almost reluctantly records the amorous pull that has brought […]
Poetry as Procreation: John Dryden’s Creative Concept of Poetry and Imitation7) Christiane Bimberg Published in Connotations Vol. 8.3 (1998/99) 1. Introduction According to the Oxford English Dictionary ‘to procreate’ means “to bring forth or beget, produce, cause” or “to beget, engender, generate (offspring).” ‘Procreation’ is defined as “the action of […]
Reproducing Living Organisms: Ben Jonson’s Dramaturgy of Procreation Yumiko Yamada Published in Connotations Vol. 8.3 (1998/99) I In his Tusculan Disputations Cicero compares various kinds of human activities in relation to the future after death to the act of procreation, as something that compensates for man’s mortality: “Trees does he […]
“The Poets Deliver”: Procreation, Communication, and Incarnation in Sidney and Wordsworth Åke Bergvall Published in Connotations Vol. 8.3 (1998/99) In this talk33) I shall be discussing some central passages in Sir Philip Sidney’s The Defence of Poesie and William Wordsworth’s Preface to Lyrical Ballads in terms of three concepts: procreation, […]
Response to “Gary Snyder, Dôgen, and ‘The Canyon Wren'” Rajeev S. Patke Published in Connotations Vol. 8.2 (1998/99) Gary Snyder’s Mountains and Rivers Without End (1996) is a collection of poems which combines an interest in Zen with a commitment to the exploration of the significance of nature for the […]
Reply to Verna A. Foster Christiane Bimberg Published in Connotations Vol. 8.2 (1998/99) I regard it as a particularly happy instance of editorial planning that the editors of Connotations have placed two papers on Timberlake Wertenbaker’s Our Country’s Good side by side in vol. 7 (1997⁄98), as this juxtaposition highlights […]
The Uses of History in Contemporary Feminist Drama: A Response to Christiane Bimberg Verna A. Foster Published in Connotations Vol. 8.2 (1998/99) I am pleased to have the opportunity to respond to Christiane Bimberg’s interesting essay “Caryl Churchill’s Top Girls and Timberlake Wertenbaker’s Our Country’s Good as Contributions to a […]
A Note on Music and Form in T. S. Eliot’s Four Quartets R. J. Schoeck Published in Connotations Vol. 8.2 (1998/99) May I join the dialogue on T. S. Eliot’s Four Quartets? I should like to offer a brief note on one aspect, or reverberation, of the form and sense […]
T. S. Eliot’s Sense of Place in Four Quartets Eleanor Cook Published in Connotations Vol. 8.2 (1998/99) The word “place” in the Oxford English Dictionary is allotted fourteen categories under four general headings (twenty−nine under seven general headings, if special uses in phrases and hyphenated words are counted). The word […]
Are Jonson and Rabelais Elegant or Grotesque? A Response to Rocco Coronato Yumiko Yamada Published in Connotations Vol. 8.2 (1998/99) Reflecting on Rocco Coronato’s “Grotesque” reply to B. Boehrer and me, I noticed that despite our agreement on the post−Bakhtinian prejudice against Jonson and “Bakhtin’s de−classicising ‘castration’ of Rabelais,” the […]
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